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Whether they publish the review or not misses the point completely of how they attract qualified reviewers. If you are capable of consistently attracting qualif
by hos234 7y ago
Whether they publish the review or not misses the point completely of how they attract qualified reviewers. If you are capable of consistently attracting qualified reviewers and filtering out the masses and doing it for free by all means do it.
But anyone who has tried knows its very hard to do for free. Just ask the mods of HN whether they want to work for free and the costs to them to maintain a standard.
- fchu 7y agoCurrency here isn't money though, but reputation (for the researcher and their institutions) and advance of science. One can imagine a world where high-quality reviewing entities exist and attract top researchers without being profit-driven publishers.
- kmill 7y agoI considered mentioning this, but the way it works is editors ask specific scientists to review articles for them (for free). The editor sends the article (the "product") for them to review, in advance of possible publication. Sometimes people agree to review articles because they get to see research before everyone else.